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Title: Star Trek: Outwardly Mobile
Author: Jay P Hailey (JayPHailey{at}yahoo.com) Series: MISC - TNG OCs
COdes: None
Part: 145/335(?)
Rating:[PG]
Archive: Fine with me, just tell me where. Disclaimer: Paramount owns all
things Star Trek.  I claim Original Characters and Situations for me.
Webpage HTTP://www.phoenixinn.iwarp.com/jayphailey

The Defiant
by
Jay P. Hailey
And
The Star Trek Players

Engineering was a mess. There were dead bodies and damaged equipment
anywhere. Birdy stepped over the broken hulk of a robot and stopped. He
took a scan of the robot. No Constitution class starship he had ever heard
of had ever used such a robot. Birdy was getting used to the idea that
somehow people from other places must have had contact with the Defiant.
He'd love to get the ship free of the interphase anomaly and do a thorough
search of the ship. They might find anything.

The fact that the robot had been attacked and damaged worried him.

They found the remains of the Engineering computer. When they tried to turn
it on, It informed Birdy that the requested Anti-Matter transfer was not
possible. He looked and blanched. The anti-matter feed was broken, badly.
Any anti-matter fed through that would explode violently.

He entered the Defiant's prefix code and got control of what he could of
the Defiant's engineering computer.

He flipped open his communicator. "Birdy to Commander Baker."

Baker's voice came back. "Baker here, go ahead."

"The Engine Room is a mess down here. I'm requesting permission to
jettison the anti-matter pods. I'm not certain how stable they are."
Birdy said. Was that someone whispering he could hear over the channel?

"Is it necessary?" Baker asked.

"Who is this?" Another voice demanded, "Identify!"

"This is Lieutenant Commander Jonathan Baker, of Starfleet. Who's this?"

They both waited for a while. No answer came.

"Sir. I think that getting rid of the anti-matter is a good safety
precaution." Birdy said.

"Go ahead-" Baker was cut off by a hiss of static, and then a
terrible noise. A voice speaking a language that they did not recognize was
screaming something. In the background they could hear violence and the
sound of howling human voices.

Birdy cut off the channel. "Wheeee..." he said.

He activated the emergency jettison circuits of the Defiant's anti-matter
pods. The Defiant confirmed the order and then counted down. While that was
going on, Birdy tried to diagnose the condition of the Defiant's
Engineering computer. Main control pathways and hardwired programs were
mostly intact. The computer was tough. designed to survive and accident in
Engineering and still provide enough controls to jettison the anti-matter
and the warp core if necessary.

A howl sounded from behind the crew. A woman in a red Starfleet uniform
faded in and rushed at Paxton, screaming. Her uniform was ripped and didn't
cover the woman adequately anymore. Distracted, Paxton let himself get
tackled to the ground. The woman was shrieking and doing her best to claw
the security man's face off.

Mileu stepped up behind her and used her baton to get a firmly leveraged
hold on the woman dragging her off.

Birdy was right behind her. "Are you all right Paxton?"

Paxton checked his face. He still had both eyes and could see out of both
of them. It hurt, but didn't seem like anything was permanently broken. He
nodded after his self check and said. "Sure, Chief. I get attacked by
hysterical women all the time."

"You wouldn't know it by the way you stood there with your mouth
open." Mileu grunted.

"Monsters! Demons! I won't let you get away with it! I'll get you
all!" The woman shrieked.

Birdy walked up to her and injected her with one of his emergency ampoules.

"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Mileu asked.

"No. But I hope it works." Birdy said.

The woman collapsed into Mileu's arms and began to cry.

"Are you okay?" Birdy looked that the woman's remaining sleeve.
"Lieutenant, are you all right?"

"No!" She yelled. "Who in the hell are you people?"

"We're Starfleet. I'm Chief Engineer Birdy from Deep Space Ten. We're
here to rescue you."

Mileu let the woman go slowly. She slumped to the deck. "How can I be
sure that you're not just another illusion?"

"You can't until you're back at Deep Space Ten." Birdy said.

The woman rocked herself back and forth a couple of times and then a light
appeared in her eyes. "If you're here, then you've got a ship! Get me
out of here!" She jumped for Birdy. Mileu quickly restrained her
again, But Birdy could see that she wasn't on the attack, she just wanted
off the Defiant. He couldn't blame her.

"Sylvia, Paxton, you two think you can get that data and get the back
to the runabout without getting into too much more trouble?" Birdy
said.

"Yes, Sir." Schuler said "What will you be doing?"

"I'll be getting the Lieutenant here onto the runabout and preparing
take on more survivors if we can." Birdy said. "Mileu, you're
with me."

"Aye, Sir."

Are you ready to return to our ship, Lieutenant?" Birdy asked the
Defiant crew-woman.

"Yes, Sir... I can't read your buttons." She said staring
confusedly at Birdy's uniform. "You're from the Enterprise?"

"Ah, no. I'll explain it later. Let's just get to the runabout."
Birdy said.

"Yes, sir."

They left the Engineering compartment.

-*-

"I'm Ensign Mann and this is Ensign Jefferson, USS Harrier." The man said.

"I'm Lieutenant Commander Baker from Deep Space Ten." Baker
introduced himself.

"Sir, do you have a ship nearby?" Mann asked.

Jefferson laughed a harsh laugh. "Fool. This is just another
hallucination. They won't save you."

Mann came to attention and waited but Baker could see that his eyes were
welling with tears.

"We have a runabout docked to the Defiant. We'll be taking you out
with us, Ensigns." Baker said.

Mann's eyes teared up more. He broke down.

Jefferson looked up at Baker spitefully. "Save it for someone who's
buying," he sneered.

-*-

The Defiant's computer reached zero and the jettison sequence started.
Explosive bolts blew a panel off the secondary hull. Antimatter pods held
in carefully arranged sequences started shooting out of the uncovered
hatch. One had been tampered with. Phaser cuts in the out surface showed
where someone had been trying to get inside the pod. After a timeless
eternity, it was unable to hold its load of anti-matter any longer. As it
flew away from the derelict, it leaked a small amount of anti-matter. As
the anti-matter touched the surface of the pod a violent reaction occurred.

-*-

As Birdy, Mileu and the Defiant crew-woman Lieutenant Burke made their way
through the corridors of the Defiant, they were thrown to the deck by a
massive explosion.

The Defiant seemed to tumble as its weakened gravity failed to compensate
for the shock waves.

"What in the hell was that!?" Mileu asked, pale. never in her
experience had an artificial gravity system failed that badly.

Helping Burke to her feet, Birdy said "That was our cue to get the
hell out of here."

They began to run.

-*-

"Report!" Baker yelled. He jumped up off the deck as soon as he could.

"Some sort of external shock wave." Crystara said.

"Was that your ship?" Jefferson asked, snidely. "Oops!
You're stuck here, too!" He broke down into bitter hopeless laughter.

Baker whipped out his communicator. "Time for us to go!" He sent
the call signal and then opened the channel to await reply. What came back
was a twisted echo of a thousand voices. "What the-?"

Crystara was grim. "Checking." She pulled out her tricorder and
began to scan.

-*-

Sylvia looked at Paxton. He had hurt himself when the ship tumbled.
"If it weren't for bad luck would you have any luck at all?"

"Ow! Let's get back to the runabout!" Paxton said.

"We don't have enough of the data..." Sylvia said dubiously.

"To hell with the data, let's go!" Paxton said.

"All right, " She helped him to his feet "Let's get out of
here." They began to stumble towards the runabout.

-*-

"The interphase is collapsing. Whatever that was destabilized
it." Crystara said.

"You two take these men back to the runabout. I'm going after Birdy's
team." Baker said. He started to move towards the door.

Crystara reached out and stopped him. "I'm sorry, Sir. You don't have
enough time." She said quietly.

Baker grimaced. It was a command decision, but he never anticipated having
to make it. He had to choose between leaving some of his people behind, and
failing his mission. He looked at Jefferson and Mann. Mann was still
standing at attention, crying openly, now. Jefferson was still laughing
derisively. He caught Baker's eye. "Welcome to hell." He said and
then broke down into more laughter.

Baker flipped open his communicator and yelled into it. "This is
Baker, Deep Space Ten! Get back to the runabout!" He keyed it to
repeat the message, and set it down on a console.

"Okay, let's get the hell out of here."


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